Walk: Clean-Air Car Show

It was on July 19 (Saturday), so this is a bit late. Okay, wayyyy late, but for a good reason.

It was a week ago when I came across South Pasadena Mission West Association website, which contained information about the community event back in April. Well... I missed that totally, but I didn't mind. The site show pictures of the April event and the local businesses in Mission West area. After few minutes looking the site, the photos of unique and classic buildings inspired my next walking destination.

The forward trip was over an hour, but the quiet and serene streets in South Pasadena made the trip quite enjoyable. The city had the feeling of San Marino, but with smaller houses and more cars. Three quarter of the way through, a small park appeared. I took few minutes to circle the park. A lot of young children playing with their parents watching near by, but beside that, nothing much.

As I finally reached Mission West, I found the sidewalk to be under construction. Most of the stores on the side still open, but the sidewalk was dusty and sandy. A block down further, the newly constructed city hall with a newly paved sidewalk. By now, my impression of Mission West began to wane. Up to that point, the area has not impress me. The buildings were new and clean, but neither creative nor outstanding. As I headed back, a green and white fryer caught my eye.

The City of South Pasadena proudly presents
Clean-Air Car show & Film Festival

Hmm...

Since it was only couple block away, I decided to join the festivity. I arrived at around 2:30 PM, and some of the booths were already packing up. True to the name, there were plenty of "future" and "green" cars from several brands in the area. There were hybrid, compressed natural gas, electric, hydrogen fuel cell, etc. However, overall, the car didn't look very impressive. There were no information about the gas mileage, and most of the cars were not in the market yet.

In the end, the only thing that truly impressed me was the animal shelter foundation. They brought a bunch of dogs and cats in their trailer, and each volunteer was taking care of a dog. While walking around the festival, the volunteers was walking their dogs, looking for potential adopters. After playing around with one of them for about ten minutes, I thought about adopting one from a shelter one day. But that time has yet to come, and with that I left the place.